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Delhi-based Rights group says over 1 lakh STs excluded from Assam NRC, The Hindu

The HinduGUWAHATI, September 02, 2019 According to the Rights and Risks Analysis Group, the exclusion is connected to the rejection of land ownership under the Forest Rights Act. A New Delhi-based rights group on Monday claimed that more than 1,00,000 Scheduled Tribes who are original inhabitants of Assam have been excluded from the State’s controversial National Register […]

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Morning Digest: ‘revolving-door’ arrests in Kashmir, monsoon deficit reduced to near zero, and more, The Hindu

The Hindu Net DeskSeptember 01, 2019 Assam NRC final list: Rights group terms it largest incident of making people ‘stateless’ in decades A New Delhi-based rights group has termed the exclusion of 19,06,657 people from the Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) as the largest incident of making people “stateless” in decades. Sri Lanka’s 1948 declaration […]

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Taal Thok Ke: Why Opposition is unhappy with exclusion figure in NRC list?, ZEE NEWS

ZEE NEWSAug 31, 2019, 19:12 PM IST The government of Assam on Saturday published the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) list amid tight security arrangements across the state. The final NRC list can be checked at www.nrcassam.nic.in or www.assam.mygov.in. According to the Assam government officials, the list was released online around 10 AM at […]

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India publishes final NRC: All you need to know on citizens’ list, Aljazeera

Aljazeera31 August 2019 Nearly 2 million left out from the controversial citizenship list in Assam amid fears they could be rendered stateless. Authorities in the northeastern Indian state of Assam have published a citizenship list that aims to identify genuine citizens amid fears millions could be excluded. A total of 31.1 million people were included in […]

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Exclusion of 1.9 million people from NRC is largest in recent history: RRAG, Northeast Now

Northeast NowANUP SHARMAGUWAHATI , August 31, 2019 Hours after the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) excluded 19,06,657 people from the updated citizens’ registry, New Delhi based Rights and Risk Analysis Group (RRAG) termed it as largest such incident making people ‘stateless’ in recent times. Also read: Assam gets its updated NRC…finally; 19,06,657 excluded from final list RRAG […]

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2 Million in India’s Assam State Face Prospect of Becoming Stateless, Voice of America

VOABy Anjana Pasricha August 31, 2019 NEW DELHI – About two million people living in India’s northeastern state of Assam face the unnerving prospect of becoming stateless as authorities wind down a mammoth process to identify illegal immigrants. Their names did not appear on an updated citizens’ register published Saturday. Human right activists say they would […]

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Rights group terms it largest incident of making people ‘stateless’ in decades

The HinduPublished on 31 August 2019SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT A New Delhi-based rights group has termed the exclusion of 19,06,657 people from the Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) as the largest incident of making people “stateless” in decades. Sri Lanka’s 1948 declaration of about 9,75,000 descendants of Indian-origin Tamils as ‘non-nationals is the next largest purging move’, the […]

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Assam NRC final list: Rights group terms it largest incident of making people ‘stateless’ in decades

The HinduGuwahati, August 31, 2019 A New Delhi-based rights group has termed the exclusion of 19,06,657 people from the Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) as the largest incident of making people “stateless” in decades. Sri Lanka’s 1948 declaration of about 9,75,000 descendants of Indian-origin Tamils as ‘non-nationals is the next largest purging move’, the Rights and Risk […]